Rhiannon

One of the positives of lockdown has been waking up to what is right on your doorstep. With its ruined tower, Bay views, and wild ponies, Dixon Heights (Newton Fell South) is a Wainwright outlier, rich in enchantment. Its mention in the Annals of Cartmel reads like a nineteenth century episode of Father Ted. As I discover, on the eve of midsummer, it can prove veritably dreamlike.